We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets …, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and … unemployment, lower labor force participation, and reduced wages in local labor markets that house import-competing manufacturing …

both imports and exports, and iii) examine the impact of imports according to the country of origin. Looking at the export … also show that import penetration has a significant and negative impact on industry wage differentials whatever the country …

.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …

Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of … to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …

We employ employer-employee matched data from Denmark and utilize plausibly exogenous variation in the rise of import … competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising … import competition has led to reduced employment in mid-wage occupations compensated by an increased likelihood of employment …

sugar plantations, since the extreme demographic and social conditions prevailing in the latter have persistently affected … family formation patterns. By exploiting the exogenous variation in sugar suitability, we establish the following. In 1850 …, sugar suitability is indeed associated with extreme demographic outcomes within the slave population. Over the period 1880 …

, sugar and meat and dairy, which together provide almost 70% of Indian food calories. Our model predicts that world prices …